Research Grant Review Committee

The Research Grant Review Committee (RGRC) will be appointed to manage the peer review process to ensure fairness, transparency and to ensure recommendations for funding achieve the Trust's SCORE objectives.

The Committee will be tasked with judging how well funding applications meet the Trust's criteria, prior to making recommendations to the Executive.

Current members of Research Grant Review Committee

Chair: Dr Patrick Harrison, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology, University of Cork, Ireland

• Dr Dilip Nazareth,  Consultant Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Lizzy Molyneux, Parent Representative 
• Candice King, CF community Representative
• Aoife Breen, CF community Representative
• Associate Professor Carlos Miguel Farinha, Associate Professor (with Habilitation) of Biochemistry and Biomedicine, University of Lisboa, Portugal 
• Professor Jo Fothergill, Reader in Microbiology, University of Liverpool
• Professor Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, Professor of Paediatrics and Head of the Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
• Dr Paola Vergani, Senior Lecturer, University College London
• Dr Fiona Whelan, Senior Lecture in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Manchester
• Dr Gwyneth Davies, Clinical Associate Professor/UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
• Dr Gemma Stanford, HEE/NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellow Specialist Physiotherapist in Adult Cystic Fibrosis, Royal Brompton Hospital
• Dr Malcolm Brodlie, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Respiratory Physician; NIHR Integrated Academic Training Programme Lead, Newcastle University
• Professor Susanne Häußler, Head of the Department of Molecular Bacteriology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
• Richard Hoey, Cystic Fibrosis Trust Trustee representative
• Dr Lucy Allen, Director of Research and Healthcare Data, Cystic Fibrosis Trust Representative

Take a look at the Terms of Reference and Conflict of Interest Policy